CITY REPORT.

9-condo building planned on Sheridan Road

ROGERS PARK — Nine condominiums will be built this summer in Rogers Park, taking the place of one of the few remaining major houses on Sheridan Road.

Jasper Construction, a Park Ridge-based developer, won approval earlier this month from the Plan Commission to build the condos at 6963 N. Sheridan Road. The firm has built small-scale residential projects over the last decade, mostly in the Lake View and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.

Units will range from 1,200-square-foot one-bedrooms to 2,600-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath penthouses and will be base-priced from $229,000 to $319,000, according to Dan O'Leary, a partner with Martin Ronan in Jasper Construction.

The condo building will replace a single-family home that is the last of what once dominated Sheridan Road in Rogers Park, according to Jonathan Splitt of Jonathan Splitt Architects Ltd., which designed the condo building.

O'Leary said the home became dilapidated long ago, and eventually a fire left it irreparable. It has been demolished.

Splitt surveyed historic homes that remain in the area and included some of their features in the design of the condo building: front masonry decks, limestone windowsills and window heads, two copper-clad roofed dormers and a copper-clad arched canopy over the entry. Two masonry chimneys will frame the entranceway.

O'Leary said he hopes to begin building by early summer, and expects to deliver the first units in the fall. Sales will start soon after construction begins.